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• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can ... 't let people tell you what you can or can't do because of arbitrary ... less so. Hopefully, these words from 2015 Selam can remind you that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your ... at least one meal. (Maybe I’m only saying this because I can’t really

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  in high school (like holding a job or tutoring or helping at home)? Can ... acceptance as well as anyone else can. If you feel lost and alone in the ... that you can’t afford a $60,000 per year education). I went to info

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  donates, they earn a badge that they can display in their email signature ... kids can program into any design or game they can think of. CAKE ... Trivedi, is an MIT Sloan graduate. GeoOrbital made a wheel that can replace

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other ... companies, Sam says, is that they can aim to get 10% better every week. Short

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  all. However, they can be great experiences for the right sort of ... MIT Admissions process, but also of themselves, and how they can best ... hospitality I was shown. I don't know where I will go next. All I can do - all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  -sleeved shirt and long underwear; you can get these for cheap at Target. That was ... 're colorful, warm, layer well, and are reasonably priced. You can get 'em for ... match. Fleece layers are also great.  You can splurge for Patagonia

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  -way presentation. In a two-way conversation, for example, you can ask "and how about ... opinions off your interlocutor. You can (should) relax and be yourself, and you can even smile and drink a cup of coffee (a number of my friends had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Boston. Classic.           2. Do things you think you can't. When I ... subject I never took in high school, and merely passed freshman fall. I can ... overcompensated my language deficit. I can leave it unsaid that attitude and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the ... data reveals how people move about inside a building and can potentially ... list of projects can be found at scifi2scifab.media.mit.edu. Another

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... ?" Me: "Hi. I'd like to take the swim test, and I was wondering if I can ... office lady: "You can leave a note for him and I'll get him to e-mail you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  time ("ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine"). I can hear his voice ... 't worry!" it says. "I'll save you! Stop going to class so that you can do ... much focus as you can. After you're all done, look around if you really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  from that weekend so more of you guys can recognize him the next time he visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... 's "Can I play in the Simmons ball pit????" (Yes, my dorm has a ball pit

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have ... , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... 's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is ... all the interfaces that you can see the nonlinear and coupled solutions

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  't strive to be the best we can be (because some of the people here are ... the best you can be in high school. Take the hardest classes you can ... is one of the best things you can do to prepare for college. Not only

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  biological systems are so fine-tuned that biologists can only push research ... . (We probably aren't them.) A software developer can make a code push that impacts millions of strangers. A biologist can publish a paper that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd ... amount of time, anything can be understood, no matter how complex, right

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  case you can't pick up a bland, regular copy at a T station somewhere in Boston, you can check out what an independent game company in Cambridge ... through mazes so we can later examine what goes on at the level of neural

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... show in the past year can come, and cast his or her vote. There are four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011